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Akrapovič has been marking its 25th anniversary with a series of important events during 2016, and the latest appearance for the Slovenian performance exhaust specialist was at BMW Motorrad Days, where it was celebrating a quarter century since its inception with the latest range of products for BMW motorcycles and cars.
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Akrapovič also had a huge range of BMW motorcycle products on display, including the latest exhaust systems for the BMW S 1000 RR, BMW S 1000 R, BMW S 1000 XR, BMW R 1200 RT, BMW R nineT, BMW C 650 Sport, BMW R 1200 GS, and BMW F 800 GS, plus many others, all demonstrating the Slovenian company's continuous drive to explore, invigorate, and expand the possibilities of high-performance exhaust systems through innovative materials, ground-breaking design, and the latest technological advances. Along with the collection of bike exhausts there was also a completely new system – and a range of unique accessories – for the BMW M2, a car that is rewriting the rules of sports coupés.
To mark ten years of cooperation between Akrapovič and BMW, the first exclusive OEM project between the two companies was on display. This exhaust system was developed especially for BMW for its HP2 Megamoto and signalled the start of the Akrapovič relationship with the German marque. This ground-breaking product was made with the aim of improving performance and enriching the experience with the instantly recognizable Akrapovič sound – an ethos that is still followed today. From this initial collaboration, the partnership has gone from strength to strength.
Akrapovič and BMW also have a strong racing bond, and the competitive element between both companies is highlighted with a number of bikes that are on display at Motorrad Days, including machines fresh from racetracks around the world, such as Ian Hutchinson's Tyco BMW S 1000 RR from the TT Isle of Man. During the rest of the show there were also visits from motorcycle stars from many different disciplines, including Sabine Holbrook, among many others.
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As the refugee crisis continues on the shores of Greece, health care becomes less about saving lives, and more about saving hope.
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For the more than 3,000 inhabitants of Skaramagas refugee camp, "home" is either a tent with no protection from the harsh seaside elements of coastal Greece, or a small containment unit with room for two bunk beds. The only bathrooms are a row of portable toilets, typically a five-minute walk from their living quarters. Children wander aimlessly, with no formal school or activities available to them. Depression and post-traumatic stress run rampant, and there is a constant threat of disease from poor hygiene conditions.
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"People are literally stuck in these camps and there is little clarity around how long they will be there. This is a true humanitarian crisis and the international community must keep focus on the thousands of people who need our help," Walsh says. "That's definitely something I took back with me and continue to share with anybody who will listen."
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Roumatsh lives with her family in a trailer at the Skaramagas refugee camp. Located on the shores of Athens, the camp houses more than 3,000 refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
Roumatsh was pregnant when her family crossed by dinghy from Turkey to Greece.
Roumatsh: (subtitled): It was very difficult. I thought my kids and husband will get there safely, but I didn't think I would make it. I was pregnant and the boat was very crowded. My situation wasn't stable, I thought for sure something bad will happen to me and the baby ... I only felt relief when I got to the island, they ran tests on me and showed me my baby's heartbeat.
VO: With no reproductive health services within the camp, she struggled to access the prenatal care she needed.
Roumatsh: I didn't get any help here. I was very unlucky, every time my trip was too long, over an hour, and the hospitals were very far. I would go by bus, then metro then walk in the heat and I am pregnant.
VO: But today, a new option is available for Roumatsh. International Medical Corps, a health care nonprofit that has been handling the health, psychosocial and hygiene needs in the camp, has opened a Reproductive Health Clinic on-site, supported by a grant from the AbbVie Foundation.
Dina Prior, International Medical Corps site director, Greece: There was a real lack of access for pregnant mothers and for women and men in general for family planning. We wanted to make sure that was being added to the overall primary health care that was being provided … Because it's not just lifesaving. We're not in that stage right now - people are here, and they are going to be here to stay for quite some time.
VO: Roumatsh was one of the first patients seen at the new clinic. There, she met Melissa Walsh, vice president, AbbVie Foundation, who had been invited to witness the International Medical Corps programs supported by the foundation's grant.
Melissa Walsh, vice president, AbbVie Foundation: It was really remarkable to see a dozen women show up who were just so thrilled that they didn't have to get on a bus and go to the hospital and potentially not come into contact with people who spoke their language and could provide these incredibly routine but important services for these women at a time which under perfect circumstances is a vulnerable time for them.
VO: Mothers aren't the only vulnerable population at the camp. Approximately half of the refugees at Skaramagas are under the age of 16.
While there is no opportunity for them to attend formal school, a group of refugees – teachers and professionals in their former countries – have created the makeshift Hope School.
Teacher: Maybe we are not the ideal school, but at least if they can benefit, you know, from anything we can teach them, it will be very good.
VO: The school also offers a sense of community and structure, teaching lessons about survival as well as arithmetic. Today, International Medical Corps visits Hope School to talk about hygiene.
VO: After fleeing war, only to land in a literal limbo, many children – as well as their parents – suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress. International Medical Corps has partnered with the BABEL Day Center to address the psychosocial needs of refugees living in camps around Athens.
BABEL Day Center director: We try to find practical solutions to their problems, and also to try to see the person as a whole, you know, like not victimize them and see a refugee that only has problems … because the people that are here, they are strong by definition, otherwise they wouldn't be here. They managed to get here.
Dina: We're dealing with real people and real families, they didn't want this, they didn't ask for this. They're caught in this situation that has traumatized them beyond belief … This girl, boy, woman, man standing in front of you has needs, has come from so much pain and is scared, and has come to you for help, and is really not looking for you to turn your back on them and paint them as a threat.
Melissa Walsh: I knew the challenges were continuing for the families in these camps, I know that International Medical Corps feels its work is not done here, but I couldn't have anticipated just how far from resolved this crisis really is.
The AbbVie Foundation extends its gratitude to International Medical Corps for all they have done, and continue to do, and to the families of Skaramagas refugee camp for allowing us to tell their stories.
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Detox diets for weight loss to jump start your health as well as reboot your metabolism. Easy to use detox diets for weight loss offer immediate and lasting results. You can start using a detox diet for weight loss and see results in as little as 2 weeks.
The average human consumes several pounds of sugar and flour per year. This leads to personal difficulty with weight loss/gain. . The degradation of our nutritional sources has led to the decline of general good health. More cases of diabetes, thyroid imbalance, digestive upset, and weight gain have been reported yearly.
Quite a bit of our prepackaged food is actually designed to keep you coming back for more. The things put into the food cause a food addiction. Cravings are an indication for the need for food with these addiction-producing ingredients in them. Which indeed leads to a rise in consumption, as well purchases of these food items.
This 'addiction' can be acquire from other sources as well, and does not necessarily have be bad food sources. This is where a detox diet can come to the aid. After altering your nutritional intake to good foods and not bad foods, your body will exhibit the same 'need' as it did when you were eating unhealthy foods.
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Our daily intake is poisoning us and robbing us of much needed energy to live a healthy life. As our intakes gets worse and stacks up, the resulting effect is dreariness, lethargy, and sleepiness. These are the outward physical signs the the body is no longer in good health and does not have enough energy to correct itself and keep you living. The metabolism slows down in a effort to correct imbalances. When the metabolism slows down the body begins to gain weight. The metabolism is no longer running high enough to burn calories and these calories are later stored as fat. Many times this creates a situation where the body thinks it is starving and holds on to even more fat.
Use a detox diet for weight loss to rid the system of impurities and begin repair.
2.Do you have fat jeans and skinny jeans? Want to have great fitting jeans?
Many detox diets for weight loss can melt 5-10 of ugly fat in a bout 4 weeks (averaging 2 lbs per week). Adding detox guidelines to everyday intake will help correct and maintain metabolic activity. Using a detox diet for weight loss it great for a rapid result but more importantly can help your weight stay healthy.
Many schools of thought believe that losing weight is just a matter of calories in/calories out, that it's about energy balance, about eating less and exercising more. Eating less make s the body think it is starving and it counteracts any good results you are expecting the minute you stop dieting. Detox diets are designed to keep the body working and can be continue indefinitely.
3. Do you crave enriched carbohydrates? Do you crave those salty, colored air snacks?
salt sugar and fat, are chemicals. Just like any other chemical that your body courses, it can ecome addicted. You might think you just Love potato chips, a cheese puffs, and polish of a giant bag in under 7 minutes because they are so good! But the sinister truth is you have become addicted to these chemical compounds and you need your sugar high. These cravings often lead to binge eating causing dangers spikes and plummets in blood sugars. This constant wide fluctuation in sugar levels have left many people with diabetic conditions, and lots of weight gain. Detox for weight loss diets replace bad carbohydrates with healthy energy sustain fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
4. You have never taken a break from your food life.
You have pretty much been eating the same unhealthy foods since you don't know when. that last time you experienced good nutrition coursing through your body was probably when you were a little baby and the parents stuffed you with pureed good food.
Once you were able to make your own food decisions you never look back. Have you ever wonder what would happen if all the 'stuff' you put in your toilet never ever got flushed. Yeah, that's what is going on with the body. Tons of stuff going in but nothing being flushed away. Basically you are a human port a poti. That is not the picture of healthy in fact I crinkle my nose at the thought of aport toilet.
I bet you think using a detox diet for weight loss sounds good now. And, yoiu would be right and feeing awesome.
5. Detox Diets for Weight Loss are NOT about bright green smoothies and wheatgerm this that and the other!
Detox diets for weight loss are often thought of as the ultra health nut not so appetizing green shakes and such. That is just a small section of detox choices centered around the thought of detox: bad stuff out and good stuff in–If you car runs very poorly on the the low octane fuel switching to a higher octane, cleaning the oil, and using one of those gas tank chemical scrubbers makes it take off like a rocket the next time you punch down on the gas.
Using a detox diet to clean out the body and replace with good stuff will having you feeling like a hot rod in about two weeks time
5 Ways to Make your Detox for Weight Loss Successful
Here's a a little list to help you in attaining a quick start and to give a little assurance towards success
1. Go Cold Turkey-no weaning
The step in breaking a habit especially a food habit is to stop immediately. If you have potato chips in the house-throw them out, right now. you will not be needing them any more (you can make your own healthier ones any way).
Don't kid yourself just one more, I just want to eat what I have here. etc. Those are excuses they burn exacty zero calories. If you are anxious about tossing out perfectly 'good' food, give it to someone else who has not decided to detox for weight loss
2. Protein packed punch power up your day
Have some item with high protein contents at every meal. If you have take meat out of your diet for this detox, peanut butter and beans can take the place of high protein. If you are decidedly vegetarian keep the tofu handy. If you are comfortable with protein powders, A Nice smoothie with some protein added in can have dramatic weight loss results
3. Replaced Enriched carbs like rice and bread with their whole grain brown varieties.
Veggies are carbs–the god ones! Eat as many vegetables as you want all day. Many good carb packed veggies are thermogenics. Meaning it takes more calories to chew and consume than the actual item delivers, causing the body to reach into reserves just consume this item.
if you ate tasty fruits and vegetables all day long you would feel full constantly. You blood sugars would stay even all day, no more cravings and before long weight loss.
Make the bulk of your detox diet for weight loss vegetables, then fruit.
4. Lots and Lots of Water.
The biggest part of detox diets for weight loss is the elimination of bodily toxins to affect weight loss and healthy weight for life.
The BIGGEST part of that is drinking water. Again I bring to mind the over full toilet. Water is your flushing medium mechanism.
If you are not getting enough water, your detox diet might actually cause a great deal of discomfort and definitely won't yield the best results.
5. Involve a support person(s)
Ok, so you don't feel motivated to keep going, enlist a friend to be your cheerleader and motivation coach. Get that person to even try a detox diet for weight loss also, that you may compare/share results. Studies have shown that many activities that people do present better results when performed as a group or at least with one other person.
Spring time is an excellent time to try a detox diet for weight loss. Most of the fruits and vegetables are in season and can be easily found. Also because warm weather cause perspiration. Many water soluble toxins can be flushed from the body either through sweat or urination. Again making it of the utmost importance to crank up the water intake.
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Author(s): Seth Lipsky
The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of "The Jewish Daily Forward," the iconic Yiddish-language newspaper of the laboring masses that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers, helped redefine journalism during its golden age, and transformed American culture.
Abraham Cahan took the helm of a failing Yiddish Socialist daily in New York City in 1902 and over the next fifty years turned it into a national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the greatest newspapermen of his day, from Lincoln Steffens to H. L. Mencken. Cahan--whose tenure at the Forward spanned the Russian Revolution, the First World War, the rise of political Zionism, the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the creation of the State of Israel--did more than cover the news. He led revolutionary reforms--spreading social democracy, organizing labor unions, battling communism, and assimilating immigrant Jews into American society, most notably via his groundbreaking advice column, "A Bintel Brief." Cahan was also a celebrated novelist whose works are read and studied to this day as brilliant examples of fiction that turned the immigrant narrative into an art form. Acclaimed journalist Seth Lipsky, creator of the English-language successor to Cahan's "Forward," gives us the fascinating story of a man of profound contradictions: an avowed socialist who wrote fiction with transcendent sympathy for a wealthy manufacturer; an internationalist who turned against the anti-Zionism of the left; an assimilationist whose final battle was against religious apostasy. Lipsky's Cahan is a prism through which to understand the paradoxes and transformations of American Judaism itself. A towering newspaperman in the manner of Horace Greeley and Joseph Pulitzer, Abraham Cahan revolutionized our idea of what newspapers could accomplish.
This biography is part of the critically-acclaimed JEWISH ENCOUNTERS series, a collaboration between Schocken Books and Nextbook Press.
(With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)
Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the "Forward" and of "The New York Sun." He is a former foreign editor of "The Wall Street Journal" and served as a member of its editorial board. He is the author most recently of "The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide." A graduate of Harvard College, he served as a combat reporter in Vietnam for the GI daily "Pacific Stars and Stripes." He lives in New York City.


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I am in total agreement. Dressing up little girls is much more fun than buying clothes for little boys. I had two sons and now I have a grandson, so it is not in the cards any time soon for me to find an exuse to buy these dresses. Domage.
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text: Hugo Martorell is currently enrolled in Concordia University's graduate interdisciplinary program, where he studies organizational designs and emerging models of city-region food governance. He plays the role of catalyzer and connector in the innovation ecosystem of Montreal, and applies his research as an observer, participant and evaluator with the Système alimentaire montréalais roundtable. Hugo is affiliated with a number of social and new economics movements in Canada and internationally.


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On a windswept plateau in the Lesotho highlands, Southern Africa, a grandmother steps out of her rondavel to begin morning chores. She looks out at the wide expanse—clear blue sky above, parched land below—and then begins tending to her home keyhole garden, a circular raised structure with a pie-shaped slice cut from the middle. She fills the basket in the middle of the garden—a compost pit—with wash water and food scraps before pulling weeds that are growing between the new plant shoots breaking the surface of the moist, nutrient-rich soil. Soon she will have spinach, peas, and beans to feed the children that she cares for. Most of them are AIDS orphans. Keyhole gardens and other home gardens are part of the arsenal of interventions to mitigate the devastating effects of food insecurity (i.e., the inability to obtain food of enough quantity and quality in socially acceptable ways 1) and HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and elsewhere.2,3
The Global Food Crisis and HIV/AIDS
In 2008, the World Food Program (WFP) cited the increase in world food prices as the biggest challenge in its 45-year history, calling the impact a "silent tsunami" that threatened to plunge millions into hunger.4 Today, more than one billion people are estimated to be undernourished worldwide, reflecting an increase of nearly 75 million since the beginning of the global economic recession and food crisis of 2008.5 The causes and consequences of the global food crisis are complex and beyond the scope of this column.6 However, in the developing world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), there is a synergism between the global food crisis and HIV/AIDS that intensifies both problems.
The term "syndemic" refers to the interaction among linked health problems under conditions of poverty and structural inequalities including gender inequality. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states, looking at the way in which health problems reinforce each other allows for a better understanding of these syndemic relations, and facilitates the creation of effective interventions.7,8 Nowhere is the example of a syndemic more evident than in SSA, where multiple epidemics work together against the survival of individuals, households, and communities. Given the widespread occurrence of famine and drought along with the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the high cost of food associated with the global food crisis, public health initiatives must adopt a multidimensional approach that addresses sustainable food production, poverty reduction and elimination, and disease mitigation through a reduction in high risk behaviors such as transactional sex9 (i.e., the exchange of sexual favors for basic necessities such as food and shelter).
Lesotho: The Case for Sustainable Food Production and Disease Mitigation
The Kingdom of Lesotho, a small landlocked nation completely surrounded by South Africa, encompasses a largely mountainous terrain that has been highly eroded through the years due to deforestation, overgrazing, and drought. To say the least, agriculture is risky business in Lesotho.10 As of early 2009, Lesotho was importing 70 percent of its food, and was heavily dependent on international food donations.11 Agricultural productivity has also decreased due to the absence of able-bodied workers. Up until the 1990s, large numbers of adults, mostly men, were absent in Lesotho—working in mining and agriculture in South Africa. More recently, work in apparel production has drawn many women from their rural villages to the lowland factories in Lesotho. Far from home and often renting small cement block flats, women have little land to grow food or social capital to support such efforts. More devastatingly, the country's workforce has been dramatically depleted by HIV/AIDS, which is believed to cause more than 30,000 deaths annually in a country of 2.1 million.12 Initiatives to individually address HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and food insecurity have met with varying degrees of success. However, we believe that such efforts would be more successful if they addressed the problem as a syndemic, that is, if they try to mitigate HIV/AIDS and food insecurity through small-scale sustainable food production and nutrition education, poverty reduction, and behavioral changes aimed at reducing risk. The latter can be achieved through enhanced HIV/AIDS education and awareness, open discussion of protective measures, provision of condoms, and the promotion of abstinence and being faithful to one's partner, combined with income generation opportunities for women—for example through the sale of surplus vegetables—that empower them and reduce their dependence on men.
Home Gardens: Improving Food Security and Nutrition
Home gardens are being promoted in Lesotho and elsewhere as a way of increasing dietary diversity (i.e., variety of foods). Dietary diversification encompasses a variety of approaches with the goal of increasing the production, availability, and access to micronutrient-rich food, which improves nutritional status and immune function. This is critical in resource-poor countries like Lesotho where diets are monotonous and carbohydrate-dense, and where AIDS and other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis are highly prevalent.
Catholic Relief Services13 (CRS), along with other organizations in Lesotho, has taken action to respond to the HIV/AIDS-food insecurity syndemic by implementing sustainable agriculture programs and irrigation schemes. One such program is the Lesotho Homes with Urban Gardens (HUG) project, implemented to expand food security programming from rural areas into peri-urban areas—areas in rural settings that are undergoing urbanization. Targeting poor households, the CRS HUG project focuses on home gardens as a means to mitigate the impact of rising food prices on urban households, and to increase access to food. The project assumes this will be accomplished in two ways. First, households will gain direct access to the fresh vegetables their gardens produce, which in turn may ease the burden of food costs in proportion to income. Second, the production and sale of surplus vegetables may provide a secondary source of income for program households. CRS's efforts center around the use of two types of gardens that are designed to absorb and retain water, and to yield large amounts of vegetables throughout the year: keyhole gardens and trench gardens, each of which offers special advantages and presents special challenges.14 Further, because the keyhole garden is a raised structure, it minimizes the amount of physical work required to take care of the garden. Therefore, it is ideal for households where the elderly, children, and individuals affected by HIV/AIDS are responsible for food production.
Today, more than one billion people are estimated to be undernourished worldwide, reflecting an increase of nearly 75 million since the beginning of the global economic recession and food crisis of 2008
We and one of our graduate students have been fortunate to be able conduct research15 with CRS on the HUG project and will continue to work toward the development of multidimensional interventions that not only address the problem of sustainable agriculture but also aim to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS through poverty reduction, nutrition education, prevention, and the empowerment of women through the enhancement of income-generating opportunities. We believe that only by taking this multifaceted approach can we get at the roots of this devastating syndemic.
For more information about food insecurity and HIV prevention see the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,16 the World Bank,17 and the International Food Policy Institute.18
1. http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cnstat/Concept_and_Definition_of_Hunger_Paper.pdf
2. http://www.fao.org/ag/AGN/nutrition/docs/FSNL%20Fact%20sheet_Keyhole%20gardens.pdf
3. http://www.cowfiles.com/african-gardens/keyhole-gardens
4. http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/wfp-says-high-food-prices-silent-tsunami-affecting-every-continent
5. http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/8836
6. http://www.worldcat.org/title/global-food-crisis/oclc/496961702
7. http://www.cdc.gov/syndemics/overview.htm
8. http://www.cdc.gov/syndemics/overview-history.htm
9. http://www.aidstar-one.com/intergenerational_and_transactional_sex
10. https://cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/lt.html
11. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/aaa7a1483b9253076fec0305a5135b99.htm
12. http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008/lesotho_2008_country_progress_report_en.pdf
14. http://crsprogramquality.org/pubs/agenv/Lesotho_homestead_gardening_manual_low.pdf
15. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123196519/PDFSTART
16. http://www.fao.org/hivaids/
17. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NUTRITION/Resources/281846-1100008431337/HIVAIDSNutritionFoodSecuritylowres.pdf
DAVID HIMMELGREEN is a biological anthropologist with special interests in nutrition, growth, HIV/AIDS, and food insecurity; he has research experience in Lesotho, India, Costa Rica, and the United States.
NANCY ROMERO-DAZA is a medical anthropologist with expertise in HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and reproductive health; she has worked in Lesotho, Costa Rica, and inner cities in the United States. Both Himmelgreen and Romero-Daza are Associate Professors in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida.


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Bang Bang released his new mixtape titled No Regretz 3. The project features twelve tracks, with features from lee Mazin, PnB Chizz, Spade-O, and Mars Parker. DellRock, Don Cheese, Digital Crates, Infamous Rell, Esquire andRead More »
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|SES Morning Session.
The Tools of the Trade for PPC:
Moderator: Kevin Lee, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Didit
- Speakers:
- Thomas Bindl, SES Advisory Board & Founder & CEO, Refined Labs GmbH
Jeff Ferguson, CEO, Fang Digital
Tim Mayer, Chief Strategy Officer, Trada
"Don't look at Search as a silo. Look across channels."
"PPC audit process - look at structure, creative, tracking."
"Utilize Negative search terms"
Try "Match Type" campaigns to further target.
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|Google and Symantec Exhibit Booths at SES.
- Moderator:Rob Garner, Vice President Strategy, iCrossing
- Speakers:
Bruce Clay, President, Bruce Clay, Inc.
Jamie Smith, CEO, Engine Ready
- "First set your website priorities and KPIs."
- "Review of Keyword research tools, SEO tools, Paid Search tools."
- "Visibility = Impression / Rank / Position"
- "Search marketing SERPs are changing, thanks to local search, instant search, etc."
- "Multichannel Analytics Beta available from Google. Ask your Google Rep about it."
- SEOToolSet Version 5 now out - - excellent presentation by Bruce Clay.
- "Social Media is emerging. Facebook has organic and PPC search sectors."
- "Search Engines enjoy higher conversion rates."
- "If you want to be in the top three organic search results, you better study the guys in those spots and BEAT them at their own game."
- Google and Links: "Trust Score getting more weight. Page Rank getting a bit less. All in an effort to reduce spam results."
- Insider Tips to Ad Optimization:
- Moderator:Bryan Eisenberg, SES Advisory Board and NYTimes Bestselling Author, bryaneisenberg.com
- Speakers:
Nicholas Gadacz, Director of Search, CafePress.com
David Greenbaum, Founder and CEO, BoostCTR
John Yi, Marketing API Program Manager, Facebook
- "Get a copy of 'Ad Magic' from your Google Rep."
- "Use a team of Ad writers for better results - - reduces the blind spots."
- "Test Test Test - - - CTR and Conversion"
- "Facebook is optimizing for 'word of mouth' - - we're only 1% finished!"
- "Facebook is about a 'Friend's voice', not a 'brand voice' in terms of influence.
- "Facebook will provide more metrics for advertisers, they're coming."
- "Use resources to find those WORDS that SELL."
- Google Adwords Author, Expert and Trainer Brian Geddes was spotted during the morning sessions.
- Website SEO Expert and Author Matt Bailey was spotted at SES, and he hosted a table during lunch.
- Crossing the Digital Divide: The Leap from Search to Display:
- Moderator: Chris Sukornyk, CEO, Chango, Inc.
- Speakers:
Emily Iverson, Director of Display Media, Booyah Online Advertising
Bill Leake, President and CEO, Apogee Search
- Yes, Display Ads do matter and they are going to play an even bigger role. And you can bid on them like Adwords. Search is "Pull" advertising. Display is "Push" advertising. You benefit from having both.
- DSPs are Display Side Platforms - - Services you can use to coordinate and bid on Display Ad space across many websites. Use only one DSP agency at a time or you'll bid against yourself.
DSPs can be very cost effective compared to massive display campaigns negotiated with large sites like Yahoo, NYT, etc.
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Search + Display Ads running: +119%
- Search Only: +82%
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- "Google will be a winner in Display Ads."
- "Display + SEO + PPC = the biggest lift." Integrate them all.
- Display Ads are the best tool to fight market lack of awareness and low visibility challenges."
- "Exploit Google Trends for potential niche targeting and brand awareness."
Here in one day, four sessions, is plenty to think about and act upon. And I'm not including the sessions I missed from the other simultaneous tracks.... SES is huge and offers a lot to absorb.


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Spring cleaning.
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A tragedy is a literary work with an unhappy outcome.
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- Tragédie (duo), a French rap duo
- Tragedy (album), an album by Julia Holter
- "Tragedy" (Thomas Wayne song), 1959
- "Tragedy" (Bee Gees song), covered by Steps
- "Tragedy" (Hanoi Rocks song), 1981
- "Tragedy", a song from Mended by Marc Anthony
- "Tragedy", a song from All Together Now by Argent
- "The Tragedy", a song from Merry Christmas Lil' Mama by Jeremih and Chance the Rapper
- "Tragedy" (Steps song)
- Tragedy (event), one or more deaths that bring grief to society
- Surviving: A Family in Crisis, also known as Tragedy, a 1985 made-for-television movie starring Zach Galligan, Molly Ringwald and River Phoenix
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Dr. Bijan Gabai, D.C.
Oasis Chiropractic Clinic
The human body is an amazingly complex system of bones, joints, muscles, and nerves, designed to work together to accomplish one thing: motion. Remember that motion is life. Everything about the human body is designed with motion in mind: nerve fibers stimulate the muscles to contract, muscles contract to move the bones, bones move around joints, and the nerve system controls it all. As a matter of fact, research has shown that motion is so critical to our body's health that a lack of motion has a detrimental effect on everything from digestion to our emotional state, immune function, our ability to concentrate, how well we sleep and even to how long we live. If your lifestyle does not include enough motion and you sit for prolong time your body cannot function efficiently. First, you will not be as physically healthy and will suffer from a wide variety of physical ailments, ranging from headaches to high blood pressure. Second, you will not be as productive in your life because of reduced energy levels and the lack of ability to mentally focus. Third, because you have less energy, your activity level will tend to drop off even further over time, creating a downward spiral of reduced energy and less activity until you get to a point where even the demands of a sedentary job leave you physically exhausted at the end of the day. Generally if you desire to have free range of motion seek chiropractic care for you or your family members visit Dr. Gabai ,D.C., who has over 22 years of experience. Basically most of axial skeletal pain or neck, back,shoulder or knee pain could be treated by gentle chiropractic adjustments in combination with physical therapy,but unlikely lots of patients take medication in order to decrease the pain. Beside the possibility of developing a dependency and addiction, medications merely numb the pain, ignoring the underlying origin of the problem. The pain is gone as long as one is taking the drugs. But, one's body can become immune to the dosage and a larger dosage of medication is required to get relief. Besides charging your credit cards, you never really solve the problem.(We must the alter the way we are approaching our problem and seek chiropractic care). Thomas Edison stated The doctor of future will give no medicine, But will interest patients in the care of human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention. Gentle adjustment, regular therapeutic massages, exercise, low fat, high fiber nutrition, and healthy thinking are a number of other things that you can do to live a life of richness. Call Dr. Gabai, D.C. and let him find the origin of your axial skeletal misalignments and correct it by gentle adjustments.


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Road trip. It's something I've always looked forward to. There's a certain sense of adventure that comes with a road trip that cannot be replicated. The idea of driving from one city to another is super appealing and having driving thousands of kilometres across the country over a decade now, I have learnt that there are some things that make a road trip even more pleasurable.
Here's a thing or two I've learnt on the way...
1. Prepare for the journey
It may not sound like the manly thing to do, but spontaneity isn't the name of the game when it comes to road trips. Get the vehicle thoroughly checked out at an authorised service centre.
Make sure that the spare wheel is inflated. All too often, we ignore the spare wheel at our own peril. Also, ensure that the car has the correct jack and wheel wrench. I have been stranded on more than one occasion with a punctured tyre and no way to jack up the car to change it because of a missing jack. I can tell you it was anything, but amusing.
2. Pack right
It's important to pack your gear correctly. Pack too much and you'll run out of boot space. Remember, there's no such thing as excess baggage on a road trip. Pack too little and you'll run out of clothes before you've come back home.
As a thumb rule, count the number of nights you'll be travelling. Multiply that by two and then add one. That's roughly the number of sets of clothes you should carry. Also, when you pack, try and fold your clothes as flat as you can if you're packing a suitcase. If you have a soft bag, then roll them up. That way, you'll use less space for the same amount of clothes. Not to mention, rolled up clothes get wrinkled less.
3. Food for the trip
No road trip can be devoid of munchies. If you're not carrying enough munchies, then you're robbing yourself of one of the most delightful aspects of a road trip. But be choosy about the food you carry because some make you sleepy and you certainly don't want that to happen if you're in the driver's seat, do you?
I divide my munchies into two categories. First, there are those that I munch on because I just like to munch on them, and then there are those that I keep for genuine hunger pangs. Packets of crisps and chocolates would be for times when I just want to keep munching on something, while sandwiches, dry cakes or muffins and juices (especially apple juices) I keep for genuine pangs. Even when I stop for a meal at a roadside dhaba or a restaurant, I avoid too much oil and certainly avoid rice. Both make you sleepy.
4. Plan your trip
This is crucial to the success of a road trip. Get out early and beat the traffic. Remember the early hours and afternoons are the best time to be on the road. However, afternoon is also the time when you might feel the sleepiest. So take extra care.
Stopping every half hour or hour will mean that you'll take much longer to reach. Instead, try stopping every two-and-a-half to three hours so that you can cover longer distances, without tiring yourself. Stops should also be planned. Things have improved a hell of a lot since I drove out on my first ever road trip. There are a billion apps out there that will let you search for pit stops well in advance.
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5. Drive with caution
All too often I see people driving much too fast on highways. Truth is, driving fast doesn't earn you anything more than brag rights with your buddies. And these rights are usually earned at great risk to those in the car as well as those around it. Instead, pace yourself.
I've discovered that 100-120kmph is the best speed to maintain on Indian highways. For starters, this is a decent pace for any country that you could visit (in fact, 120kmph is the accepted speed limit on highways in most countries around the world). It also gives you enough pace without ever overpowering your brain. Plus it gives you enough time for correction on our rather unpredictable roads. It puts less strain on your vehicle.
Look far ahead, instead of just ahead of the bonnet of the car. This will allow you to spot hazards well in advance and avoid them, instead of reacting to them. Last but not the least, try to be smooth. This keeps your passengers comfortable.
Finally, the brag rights…imagine if you told your motor mouth friend that you covered the same distance in roughly the same amount of time travelling slower! Watch him gape while you walk away with that smug smile.
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The author is an auto journalist and Assistant Editor, evo India and Fast BikesIndia, with over a decade's experience in publishing in India and abroad. His passion is cars and bikes.


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This 100-card standard-size set was issued during the 2003 baseball season and was issued in five card packs along with a poster. Similar to the 2002 set, these cards were printed totally in Spanish. Other than the Jose Contreras Card (#1) the cards are arranged in alphabetical team order.
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According to Visa, MasterCard and American Express merchant rules, merchants generally cannot charge a service fee when customers use their credit card. However, Visa, MasterCard and American Express permit eligible merchants to charge a service fee (also known as a convenience fee) for certain types of transactions.
To pass credit card fees onto your customer, you can:
- Add a line item for credit card surcharge to the invoice and add a standard amount to each invoice
- Calculate to offset the 2.9% + $0.30 charge per invoice.
The following is a formula to calculate credit card fees:
If you want to 'take home' $100 from a credit card payment, all we need to do is fill in the take home amount, which is y:
x = (y + .3) / .971
x = (100 + .3) / .971
x = ~103.30
In order to receive 100.00 from this credit card payment, you would add a convenience fee of $3.30.
In some cases, we will want to double check the total for a missing penny rounding error but this formula is the best way to calculate the fee.
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Once Upon A Time -- How Dreamy Became Grumpy
It seems everyone wasn't getting their happily ever after in Fairy Tale Land as Grumpy's sad love story with the Pink Fairy unfolds. Well, neither did Belle and Rump, either.
The first thing we learn is dwarfs aren't born, they're hatched from eggs. They work in mines all the live long day making fairy dust for the fairies to sprinkle. The Blue Fairy is currently apprenticing The Pink Fairy, Nova. Nova drops a whole lot of fairy dust on Grumpy's egg and he hatches early with a memory of her.
After coming out all the dwarfs are giving axes and on the handle it tells them their names. Grumpy's handle says Dreamy and he is a dreamer. He meets Nova, who is a bit of a klutz, who nearly loses all the fairy dust for the year, but Dreamy saves the day. Nova confides her dream is to one day become a fairy godmother. Good thing she wasn't Cinderella's fairy godmother when Rump whacked her for her wand.
Nova invites Grumpy to go watch the fireflies with her, but he doesn't realize that and hopes she has a good time. When Grumpy runs into Belle, whose at a tavern, she makes him realize it and urges him to go take his chance at love. She's miserably in love because things didn't work out with Rump.
Grumpy does that and he and Nova plan to sail off together to see the world. Unfortunately, when he tries to sneak away, he's caught by head dwarf, Bossy, who tells him dwarfs don't fall in love. He joined in chorus by the Blue Fairy who convinces Grumpy to let Nova go so she can fulfill her dreams of becoming a fairy godmother and Grumpy does just that.
When he returns to the mine he's a very bitter man. He breaks his axe and gets a new one, which declares his name to now be Grumpy.
In Storybrooke, Grumpy is called Elroy and he's a drinker. He meets up with Nova who is now Astrid a nun. She's just as unattainable in Storybrooke as she was in Fairytale Land. He helps her light the lights at the Miner's Day celebration. The sales of candles help the nuns pay their rent. Just as in Fairytale Land miners and nuns are connected. Taking a fancy to Astrid, and hearing how she made a mistake and ordered 12 dozen helium tanks instead of 12, he vows to sell all the candles so the nuns can pay the rent. Unfortunately, when he and MM can't, he lies that he did.
He even tries to sell his dilapidated boat to Gold, who is the nun's landlord or get Gold to let the rent go for a month, but Gold won't do it. He doesn't like nuns. He says he has a long and complicated history with nuns. Since Gold knows he's Rump that must mean that all the nuns in Storybrooke are actually fairies and as we know he whacked one of them for a wand. But is there more to the story on why he doesn't like the fairies? Something that happened before he killed one of them?
Astrid realizes Elroy lied to her and is disappointed in him. Elroy then comes up with an idea and causes a black-out in Storybrooke which forces everyone in town to buy the candles. He also tells Astrid he's going to fix his boat up and when he does, she can be his first passenger.
Things are still going bad for MM who is being treated like a pariah. But it seems the black-out may have thawed some of the people's harsh attitude towards her a bit. Unfortunately, she watches as Emma takes David away in the back of her squad car.
Earlier, Emma had questioned him about the last time he talked to Kathryn, but Sydney gives Emma phone records of a conversation between David and Kathryn that makes what he said a lie. She doesn't know that Sydney got the records from Regina who could have doctored them anyway she pleased. So much for Emma and her mystical ability to tell when someone's lying. Sydney's lying like a rug and her internal lying warning system isn't picking it up. I kept expecting the show to end showing Kathryn rotting in the cell next to Belle.
I'm a little surprised it appears that Regina is framing David for Kathryn's disappearance. Seems she'd frame MM instead. But then maybe that's where this is leading somehow.
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Gurgaon court directs builder to refund plot cost
The consumer court told the builder to refund the plot cost with 9% interest and litigation expensesgurgaon Updated: May 09, 2016 15:30 IST
A consumer court in Gurgaon has directed a private builder to refund the cost of a plot with 9% interest and litigation expenses to a Gurgaon-based consumer, who had bought it seven years ago in Rajasthan.
Petitioner Satish Kumar Sharma of Shivaji Nagar, Gurgaon, had booked a plot (100 sq yard) in Shahpura, Rajasthan in 2007 and paid Rs. 89,550.
When the builder failed to allot him the plot, Satish approached Gurgaon's district consumer disputes redressal forum, alleging deficiency of services. He asked the court to direct the builder to refund the plot cost with interest. He also sought a compensation of Rs. 2 lakh for harassment and mental agony and Rs. 22,000 as litigation charges.
The builder argued that since the plot was in Rajasthan, it was out of the jurisdiction of the consumer court. The argument was turned down as the builder has its office on the Old Railway Road in Gurgaon.
"We direct the opposite parties (office bearers of the real estate firm) to refund Rs. 89,550 with interest at 9% per annum from the date of filing the complaint (May 15, 2015) till realisation. The complainant is also entitled to a compensation for harassment and mental agony as well as litigation expenses to the tune of Rs. 2,000," said the order.
The order was passed by a three-member panel of judges — president Subhash Goyal, Jyoti Siwach and Surender Singh Balyan.
"The opposite parties should make the compliance of the order within 30 days from the date of receipt of the copy of this order," the order said.
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What separates parents who raise happier people from those who don't?
A new study tracking 5,362 people from their birth in 1946 found that parents who are warm and less controlling have happier children while children raised by over protective parents have worse mental well-being.
The study , over 60 years later, had 2000 people answering a series of surveys regarding their parents. The negative effect of controlling parents can be seen in children even in their 60s and researchers compared the damaging effects to death of a loved one.
Lack of warmth also makes it hard for children to bond with their parents as reported in the research.


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February 25, 2010 (ITASCA, Ill.) --An investigation is underway in northwest suburban Itasca into a fatal crash.
A driver was on the shoulder of the road on Route 53 near Irving Park Road. He was apparently looking under the hood of his car when he somehow wound up in on-coming traffic. He was struck and killed.
The crash caused a significant backup on the outbound side of Route 53 while police investigated.


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Crinu ANDANUT, CEO of ALLIANZ-TIRIAC Private Pensions, is also the Chiarman of APAPR, the Romanian pension funds' association. Find out his vision of the Romanian private pensions market in this interview:
Crinu ANDANUT, PhD
Chairman, APAPR
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We celebrate one year since the launch of mandatory private pensions in Romania. What do you think of the results so far?
Crinu ANDANUT, PhD:
To us, the operators, this year has been the YEAR OF TRUTH as we got down to business and we had to convince Romanians of the urgent need to change their mentality, namely to make everyone responsible for their own future, in line with the European culture of personal attitude. On a more technical level, this year meant a huge effort, where we had to provide the logistics and distribution capacities for this new pension saving product in a very short time of merely four months. In this respect, the key to our success was organising skills and team work.
The competition on the market was tough. A competitive market is not a graceful ballet stage. It all comes down to competition between professionals that have targets, ambitions, business plans, but it is important that we managed to communicate, maybe even better than the operators from other markets, that we engaged in a professional dialogue, replacing conflicts with sharing views and ideas. In general, even if not all actions were fair-play, few however went beyond normal boundaries. Maybe this is also due to the fact that the Romanian economy is maturing, European realities got closer to us, and the Romanian "jungle" of endless freedom has become more civilised. Moreover, I have to particularly point out that the institution having regulated and started the whole system, The Private Pension System Supervisory Commission (PPSSC) took great actions and did an amazing job in this first stage.
Finally, as a funny comment, we are surprised to see a variation between the target figures announced at the beginning of the race and the real results achieved by many of the operators. It has been an extraordinary game, a game of image most of all, a professional game. Some used figures to manipulate the market by announcing highly ambitious plans, others were more reserved and stayed between reasonable limits. I watched this show closely and I think I knew what stand I had to take. Therefore, I can say that ALLIANZ-TIRIAC achieved and even topped its initial targets without letting the public down and confirming once more the seriousness and balance that ALLIANZ is all about. Of course, higher ambitions are on the map, too.
What could you say about the development of the voluntary pension market and what are your forecasts for the near future?
C.A., PhD:
I think all channels overreacted with their forecasts. I even asked myself often on what grounds they were made. Romania is "a country lacking statistics", so, even in the case of mandatory pensions, the total size of the targeted market was a "mystery" before the end of the campaign. Only now can we see how much of this market is real and how much of it exists only on paper. Real figures were used less than "image-gaining" figures and, consequently, the entire forecasting trend was exaggerated. This goes for optional pensions as well and that is why the people are under the impression that Pillar 3 didn't bring in the expected results over this period.
In my opinion, we should be more cautious with forecasting and intervene by means of market-stimulating technical measures: deductibility, transfer adjustment, and other measures supporting the market and that are already being considered by the private pensions authority. I think that the pension market will grow slowly. I am repeating what I've always been saying: 2008 is not the year of pensions because mentalities don't change that fast in the Romanian economy. A lot of hard work is needed in terms of education, some issues need to be discussed and re-discussed to exhaustion before the economy and its players can really see private pensions as a useful tool. Individuals still show a very strong consumer tendency and no saving culture at all, plus people's incomes are not high enough yet.
As a conclusion, this market will develop only with a lot patience and hard work. It is enough to have a look at the life insurance market showing clearly that, after ten years of running, Romania is still one of the most under-insured countries.
PRIMM: The "moment of truth" is getting closer as in 2009 the first official results regarding the returns of pension funds will be published. In this respect, what could you tell us about the main goals of private pension administrators for the next period?
C.A., PhD:
Many things still need to be done. We need to finish up a system that was launched "at full speed" and that still contains many things that need changing, adjusting to reality, regulating. In this area, any decision you make today will have irreversible effects in tens of years and that is why a lot of carefulness is required. For example, the average contributions could be improved on both pillars. It is obvious that we have the smallest contributions to mandatory pension schemes of all Central and Eastern European countries. This means troubles for future retirees who will have a smaller accrual of retirement benefits than those from other countries. In 15 - 20 years, new comparisons will be made that will not be in favour of Romania.
In addition, it is a well-proven fact that deductibility provided for the optional pension system is the decisive factor as to the size of contributions. With an average contribution of 200 euros/year, we can't expect great yields leading to a decent pension and I am afraid that overrated expectations are being generated about the optional pension system yields. Fortunately, there is some hope that things will change for the better.
As far as the returns are concerned, of course we could work them out, but it would be unpractical and it wouldn't give us a taste of the pension system. Only in about five years, will we see significant results. Unfortunately, the market turns us into opportunists and makes us run away from long-term investment. On the other hand, given the current circumstances, where the equity market has taken a downfall, we should be more flexible in dealing out different types of financial instruments, even if our prospects set some limits regarding the make-up of the investment portfolio. The investment make-up was thought for the long run and in such a time, like the current crisis, we need to be very careful or otherwise we could end up consciously losing money.
What do you think about the relationship with the supervisory authority so far? Could the restructuring of pension companies' association contribute to a better dialogue between the market authority and operators?
C.A., PhD:
The Association is increasingly more active and present on the pension market. I was appointed Chairman at the end of Bram BOON's term and I am happy to get all this trust from my colleagues. It is a difficult task at hand because I, as an operator, need to represent the interests of all operators, big or small. It is a matter of principle.
Our goal is to build up our image and become a real dialogue partner on the market. To this purpose, we have taken big steps forward in our relationship with the Commission. The market authority consults us about every legal and regulation matter. This is great because both, we and the Commission, are rookies as no one can say that Romania has a history in this field, and the experience of our parent companies can be very important and useful.
Our association plans a different approach to the dialogue between market players. We have to represent the interests of all and that is why the Association is the perfect environment for sharing ideas as well as arguments so that this market can grow fast, give future a chance, and prevent through dialogue any problems that might arise and could affect the interests of pension scheme contributors.
I am glad to say that our dialogue with the Commission has hugely improved. Both I and my colleagues are very pleased. Of course, we can't talk about a "friendship" or a general consensus, because, in the end, we take completely different stands, but it is important that we communicate well. The Commission needs to strengthen law application, and we, the operators, are here to win the clients' trust... in other words, in the end, our interests come together to the benefit of market growth and stability. Consequently, I can honestly say that there are no problems as to building the pension system on very solid ground.
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Festival OrkesKeroncong Anak MudaPilar Indonesia ke-4Sabtu, 15 September 2018
Students took part in this activity in order to broaden their knowledge of the third unit of Inquiry, namely "Many products go through a process of change before they are consumed or used". At Cimory We were able to see the process of making dairy product. We watched a movie about how fresh milk is processed and becomes pasteurized milk, yoghurt and cheese. By watching the movie we understood why we must store milk at a low temperature in order to keep it fresh. We also discovered that we need to add bacteria to milk to make yoghurt.
After that we went down to the farm itself and met Mr. Doni who was our guide for the day. He told us that dairy cows and beef cows are different and we learnt the names of some of the breeds of cattle. We were allowed to feed the cows with big bunches of grass and we learnt how to milk a cow. It was an awesome experience.
In March 2013, Sekolah Pilar Indonesia held a Science Fair. All the members of SPI, ECC, Primary and High school participated in this event. The purpose of this event is to allow the students the opportunity to know, understand, and put in to practice the process of conducting an experiment.
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NASTAR is the acronym for the NAtional STAndard Race and is the largest public grassroots ski race program in the world. NASTAR was developed by SKI Magazine in 1968 to provide recreational racers with an opportunity to compete and to compare their scores to friends and family members regardless of when and where they race. Participants compete within their age and gender groups to win platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals. NASTAR is open to all skiers and snowboarders.
Participants are encouraged to register with NASTAR prior to arriving at the mountain. This will save time when you arrive to the Learning Center desk on the day of the race. Click here to head over to the NASTAR registration site.
NASTAR Rates:
$5 for 2 runs
$10 for daily unlimited runs
$3 for single timed run (no medal)
$1 for NASTAR reruns
NASTAR Season Pass: $149.99, good for the 2017 / 2018 Season. Purchase at the Ragged Mountain Learning Center.
NASTAR Schedule: 11am-2pm: Weekends and Holidays
NASTAR will operate as soon as conditions permit
NASTAR will not be available on the following dates: 1/6, 1/20, 2/4, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31
Due to weather conditions, snow conditions, and private groups, hours of operation are subject to change without notice.